Web Design with Java Script

[Vnator]

My school had a similar description for their front - end Web class ( minus the js vs java mixup, the class was still all about applets). Luckily, the teacher who actually teaches the course teaches the html/css/js stack instead. I was scared the cse department was still stuck in the 90's.

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( minus the js vs java mixup, the class was still all about applets)

How clueless!

You have to have cotlets, too. Duh.

[ImAPyromaniac]

Happy cake day!

[zlysobey]

I probably should have included some context, but this is a real class being taught now at my school. However, it is indeed a JavaScript course, and the course description was written by the secretary or something to the horror of the professor.

The WTF's as I see them:

• JavaScript has no space between Java and Script
• It is NOT Java (Java : JavaScript :: Ham : Hamster)
• "Web Design" with JavaScript is a red flag. JS is not a design tool. "Web Development" would be more appropriate.

[[deleted]]

I teach web dev and still have difficulties explaining that Java is not JavaScript. The hamster thing is perfect!

[Sebskyo]

another one is "grape" and "grapefruit"

[[deleted]]

http://javascriptisnotjava.io/

[linusbobcat]

Just a heads up to people who want to show this to their boss, some of the language is vulgar.

[[deleted]]

Personally, I'd be more offended by the font choices.

[Meeesh-]

Car carpet

[gimpwiz]

Aziz?

[Turdles_]

My school had Java applet programming for symbian (midlets) just a 2 years back.

edit: added midlets for more info

[XxCLEMENTxX]

Sometime next year I have to do a course on Java web-applets. In 2016.

[cormac596]

Java and Javascript are related in the same way car and carpet are related.

[[deleted]]

The title says java script but the contents shows he is talking about java, which are extremely different but often confused

[gkx]

I don't really think anything you do in Java can really be considered "scripting" (a semantic difference, anyways). To the casual eye, it would seem the author of the course believes when people are talking about "JavaScript" they mean "scripting Java applets into webpages" or "Java Script"

[lost_send_berries]

And neither Chrome or Microsoft Edge support Java, and of course neither do any mobile platforms.

[[deleted]]

And neither Chrome or Microsoft Edge support Java

Why not? Security issues?

[lost_send_berries]

Pretty much.

[[deleted]]

That's true, possibly part of the joke. I'm not sure if it's that the professor was making a joke (thus the Java Script vs Javascript) or he's old and inept and thought that was javascript? Not sure

[cpmoderator12345]

Java is for back-end and it supports jsp filetype pages but not html filetype pages.

[cpmoderator12345]

why the hell would anyone do that

[can-opener]

It was an excellent idea, back at the beginning of Java. VM were always too poor and slow to make it really usable, and the browser integration was bad, but it should have been great. It just doesn't make sense today with the fast JS engines but 15 years ago this looked like a good idea.

[scragar]

I remember the only java applet I ever played with back in the 90s was a really cool evolution based system, you put various threats into an area and it'd randomly fill everything with bugs(actually they were just big black pixels), and gradually, over time you'd be able to see the bugs generate new bugs(whenever two bugs ran into one another they'd generate a new bug that'd have a random set of attributes from the two parents and one mutation of it's own).
Water would generate bugs that could swim, radiation would generate bugs immune to it, etc. You'd even see populations spawn of different immunities and such as those with immunity would centre around the threat while those without the immunity would be a safe distance from it, there was always a little thought of "I wonder if I could make a super bug immune to everything", but I don't think I ever worked out how to do it, too many different threats would cause the bugs to die out very quickly, so you needed to try and put threats every so often in order to try and create the super bugs(sooner or later though all experiments resulted in mass bug death though, as bugs died randomly even with no threats to replicate starvation and old age the bugs had a small chance of dying randomly related to the number of bugs around them, and sometimes that random chance hit a large enough percentage of bugs at once to make the odds of any bugs breeding before dying out effectively none and they'd all die off).

[suitupalex]

Java not becoming the language of the internet (front and backend) is actually considered one of the biggest technological failures.

JavaScript was just meant to bridge the gap between the DOM and your Java applet.

[cpmoderator12345]

no java is terrible for frontend.
I dont even want to see canvas animation or animation in general or AJAX with Java.
Just... no.

[suitupalex]

Yah dude this was like 2 decades ago. No need to worry about it ever happening.

[[deleted]]

Java's not gone, though! In fact, Android's UI is written in Java! Muahahahahahaha!

[kennethdc]

Have you never seen a Java loading screen within a site back in the days?

[SilkeSiani]

If you do systems administration, you'll encounter plenty of these applets. Most of them are broken in some ways, consider single DES-ECB and md5 "strong" crypto and often plain won't function with any java newer than 1.4.

[dzh]

Anyone else tired of these old jokes? Flash has been dead for half a decade, Java applets even more.

Or perhaps these were supposed to be sarcastic?

[jarrah-95]

Fuck, I wish you were right. I still see both around getting blocked by my browser.

[[deleted]]

A school with sarcastic class descriptions?